[ale] Seagate Acquires Maxtor

[Scott Castaline]

On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 13:13 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> Seagate acquired Maxtor a long time ago. In response to the question,
> I think it has gone the other way. I RMAed a 160GB 7200RPM, with 8MB
> cache, Seagate drive on July 25th. The drive arrived at their
> warehouse on the 27th. The didn't send me a replacement drive until
> the 18th of this month. When I got the replacement drive on the 22nd I
> didn't even break the seal on the antistatic bag before I had to get
> another RMA. They sent me a 140GB drive! The person I spoke to said he
> would ship me an advance replacement, with a return label for the
> 140GB drive, at no cost. They still haven't shipped the appropriate
> drive to me. I will be calling them after class to find out what is
> going on. If they are "out of stock" I am going to request a return
> label and a check for the market value of the drive. I'll just go buy
> a Western Digital drive. I've been without my Linux box for over a
> month now.
> 
> On 8/28/06, Watson, Keith R. <krwatson at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
> > Seagate Acquires Maxtor
> > http://www.seagate.com/newsinfo/invest/annualreport/seagate_acquires.htm
> > l
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/eof9d
> >
> > Does this mean that Maxtor drives may actually become reliable?
> >
> > keith
> >
> > --
> >
> > Keith R. Watson                        Georgia Institute of Technology
> > Systems Support Specialist IV          College of Computing
> > keith.watson at cc.gatech.edu             801 Atlantic Drive NW
> > (404) 385-7401                         Atlanta, GA  30332-0280
> >
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Kinda reminds me of the good ole days at Seatrash back about 17+ years
ago...............

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Scott Castaline aka Bad2theBone

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